Gnostics
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the Gnostics · the forests of the Gnostics · the gnostic · the gnostic's heart · the gnostics · those greater than the world · العارف · قلب العارف
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Stromata (Greek) · Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi (Arabic)
Those superior to pleasure, those who surpass the passions, those who know each thing they do, the gnostics, those greater than the world.
in the texts
Stromata
Those who surpass the passions and the world, identified by Clement as the true gnostics addressed by scripture as 'gods'.
Those superior to pleasure, those who surpass the passions, those who know each thing they do, the gnostics, those greater than the world.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The ʻārifūn, those with experiential knowledge of God, whose hearts and insight set the measure of the doctrine.
'If the Throne and all it contains, a thousand times over, were in a corner of the gnostic's heart, it would not fill it' — or however he put it.
In this there is a subtlety which the gnostic knows;
Adversus Valentinianos
A broader group of sects into which Tertullian says Valentinian doctrines have proliferated wildly.
And so, growing up, the doctrines of the Valentinians have now run wild into the forests of the Gnostics.
De Anima
Heretical sect whose doctrine of hidden spiritual knowledge is traced to Platonic sources.
For from this they snatch the difference between the corporeal senses and the intellectual powers, which they accommodate even to the parable of the ten virgins — so that the five foolish ones figure the corporeal senses, foolish, namely, because easy to be deceived, while the wise express the mark of the intellectual powers, wise, namely, because they touch that truth which is hidden and supernal …
Scorpiace
A heretical sect who, according to Tertullian, emerge during persecution to dissuade Christians from martyrdom.
When, therefore, faith seethes and the Church is burnt up, as by the figure of the bush, then the Gnostics burst forth, then the Valentinians creep out, then all the opponents of martyrdoms boil up, themselves too hot to wound, to sting, to slay.